Word Meanings - NAVEL-STRING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The umbilical cord.

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• UMBILICAL
  Of or pertaining to an umbilicus, or umbilical cord; umbilic. 2. Pertaining to the center; central. De Foe. Umbilical cord. The cord which connects the fetus with the placenta, and contains the arteries and the vein through which blood circulates
• PARUMBILICAL
  Near the umbilicus; -- applied especially to one or more small veins which, in man, connect the portal vein with the epigastric veins in the front wall of the abdomen.